May Dixon has never met a problem she couldn't solve--signs of her "tinkering" are all over her late-1940s Indiana farm--but she never thought she'd be inventing a whole new kind of family. Faced with losing her husband, May pulls herself together and comes up with a plan. "People think it's crazy to shell peas with a clothes-wringer, too," she tells herself. "But it works."Alive with the sensory detail of a mid-century farm household, from the golden glow of home-canned peaches to the sweat of the tobacco harvest, this evocative novel explores complex truths of family, friendship, community, and the past. MAKING IT ALL RIGHT is a story of what can--and can't--be accomplished with ingenuity, determination, and love.